A newly-published Samsung patent suggests that the South Korean company plans to eventually make all of its Galaxy-branded smartphones stylus-compatible. While everyone laughed at Apple for the Pencil it brought out alongside the iPad Pro, digital sticks can be genuinely rather useful -- the Surface Pen and S Pen are cases in point. Samsung may be about to step things up. Read More >>

Those of you still counting Samsung phone and tablet models have a new one for the long, long list, with leaks suggesting it's preparing an 8" Galaxy Note to sit between the 5.5" Note II and the larger 10" version of the stylus-based tablet. Read More >>

Samsung's sent out a cryptic event teaser for October 24th, because apparently "the next big thing is here". The picture of one of Samsung's new S-Pen styluses confuses things a bit; we've already seen the 5.5-inch Note 2 and Note 10.1. So, what's next? A 7-inch Note, or maybe a smaller phablet? [AllThingsD via TechRadar] Read More >>

While blabbing about how great the iPad is, Apple hit-out at Samsung and Android over app scaling. It wasn’t pretty, and just a tad below the belt to pick on an app that isn’t tablet-optimised from Twitter of all places, but it seems Apple’s not playing fair anymore (did it ever?). Samsung’s not taking this playground rubbishing lying down though, and has retaliated in proper schoolboy fashion armed with a Galaxy Note 10.1-shield and an S Pen-forged sword. Read More >>